Transforming Your Research Into a Written Product
Date: September 02, 2026 Time: 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM Location: Our library, 12219 Tulip Grove Dr., Bowie, MD 20715

Transforming Your Research Into a Written Product

Have you been thinking of compiling your research into a document to share with family?  This talk may inspire you to actually sit down and do it.  Natonne Elaine Kemp will cover preparing family trees and histories for a family reunion, writing an article to submit to historical or genealogical society and writing a book.  Join us in person (and take home a free book or two!) at our library in Bowie (see above).  There will be a virtual option for our more distant members; a link will be sent before the meeting.  Either way, we look forward to seeing you then.  Note:  the talk will not be about the pictured book!

About Our Speaker:

From 2011 – 2013, Natonne Elaine Kemp served as editor of Homeplace, the official newsletter of the Old Edgefield District African American Genealogical Society (OEDAAGS). She is the author, with the late Edna Gail Bush, of There Is Something About Edgefield: Shining a Light on the Black Community through History, Genealogy & Genetic DNA (Rocky Pond Press). The book won the 2018 International AAHGS Book Award for Non-Fiction: Education. Natonne appeared as co-host and acted as guest host of the BlogTalkRadio show, Bernice Alexander Bennett’s Research at the National Archives and Beyond. In 2019, Natonne became the sole operator of the publishing company, Rocky Pond Press, which published its second title, Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator-Biography of Lawrence Cain, a remarkable story about a prominent Black Republican during Reconstruction from Edgefield, South Carolina.

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